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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Franck Assiga Edoa damages knee ligaments — 70 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 70 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market5 Oct 2026
Yves Aimé Zoa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Canon Yaounde can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Joseph Arumala, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.32
A mark of 8.32 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Canon Yaounde — 7.90
1 for Issa Bangfome, marked 7.90, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kutlwano Letlhaku is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Thato Sibiya falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Joseph Arumala has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Franck Assiga Edoa damages knee ligaments — 77 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 77 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 8 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A first appearance Alain Bikoe Mongo will want to forget — 5.71
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.71, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Joël Paten is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kutlwano Letlhaku was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Franck Assiga Edoa damages knee ligaments — 84 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 84 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thato Sibiya is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Thato Sibiya in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nathan Doualla
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to PWD Bamenda to sit and watch. I want to come back to Canon Yaounde and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad14 Sep 2026
Franck Assiga Edoa damages knee ligaments — 91 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 91 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dilane Ekongolo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Zacharie Ebogo to Dynamo Douala has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Canon Yaounde with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Junior Dande in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Canon Yaounde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thato Sibiya is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Martin Ako Assomo at his very best
Marked 8.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Canon Yaounde.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Triumph
Squad7 Sep 2026
Franck Assiga Edoa damages knee ligaments — 98 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 98 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Sep 2026
Yves Aimé Zoa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Canon Yaounde can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Supporters turn on the $120.0K sale of Stéphane Bekolo
He is going to Cotonsport Garoua, the club has $120.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kutlwano Letlhaku is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Thato Sibiya in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market7 Sep 2026
Cotonsport Garoua paid $120.0K and Canon Yaounde took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Franck Assiga Edoa damages knee ligaments — 105 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 105 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Canon Yaounde sell a favourite for $160.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Romeo Mfeng Nanga was one of the reasons people came, and $160.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Joël Paten is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market31 Aug 2026
PWD Bamenda come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Canon Yaounde did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
The chase for Ali Nsangou ended with $160.0K changing hands and PWD Bamenda out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Canon Yaounde can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from PWD Bamenda for Paul Ombolo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Junior Dande was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Issa Bangfome falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Canon Yaounde have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Thato Sibiya has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Canon Yaounde know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Panthere du Nde for Franck Assiga Edoa was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Junior Dande in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Canon Yaounde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Issa Bangfome is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Martin Ako Assomo suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Canon Yaounde have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market17 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Kabiru Abdullahi arrives from Barau with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Canon Yaounde has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Canon Yaounde, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Canon Yaounde did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Junior Dande in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Canon Yaounde have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Canon Yaounde, another week without a signature from Nathan Doualla.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Martin Ako Assomo suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Canon Yaounde have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Martin Ako Assomo and Canon Yaounde agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Junior Dande was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Évrard Beyong has come up in conversations Canon Yaounde were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Issa Bangfome falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Canon Yaounde, another week without a signature from Junior Dande.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Martin Ako Assomo’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.